GIMP Tutorial

[lostsoul]

Hopefully when i get used to gimp ill post some more tuts. ill make one after tea cos its pretty coolio

EDIT: its after tea now and i believe im going to be the first person to make a GIMP tutorial . Gimp is a good program if you have no money and no good image editing package. Its interferance is slightly difficult to get used to with about 3 different windows: Image icons, layers etc and the actual image. It gets annoying as when you select one of the windows the other two are inactive. However you can access the image editing icons from menus. Gimp can have plug-ins to help it work the best one of these is the animation one which i advise getting. Aswell as plug-ins GIMP comes with scripts ready to use (Script-Fu) this is good for making words, backgrounds and many other wbesite stuff (headings etc). In this tutorial i will show you how to make a old 'warning' side which looks like this:



I think this looks pretty cool and its very easy to make

Firstly make a new image 300x90px

Choose the normal filler tool and select the pattern starfield (ignore the warning pattern for now):



next fill the background with the pattern and duplicate the layer. Change the Mode of the 'copy of background' to Addition.



your sig should look something like this:



next choose the normal fill tool again and select the pattern Warning! (as in the picture showing the fill tools)

create a new layer and fill this layer with that pattern. Change the layers mode to Colour and there you go an industrial looking sig background.



post here for questions and comments.

[matthew]

Great tut, Lostsoul..I've only just spotted it .

I downloaded gimpshop but I'm having problems getting programs to install, at the moment. i'd love to try it out though.

judging by the screenshots it looks like a great free alternative to psp, and photoshop.

[lostsoul]

With Gimp you have to download the GTK Runtime environment and the actual GIMP thing and then it should work heres the link from where i got it from:

gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Download the runtime and then the Gimp one below it. i also downloaded the animation add one aswell. Thanks for your comment M@ i was just messin about and i also came up with this (boarder from PSP 10 trial and the text needs sorting out but everything else i like )

Number 1:



Number 2:



and the original Number 3:



I made the main image in GIMP using layers, cropping and effects and as i said before the first images border is made in PSP 10 but im going to post a tut how to make this border in paint.

[matthew]

I love those. especially the colours on the top one .

Thanks for the link. i'll check it out. i think It's a problem with my installer or something though, as i've been having problems with everything i try and install

[lostsoul]

I know the top one is the best out of the three but ive forgotten how i did it which is really bad as ive decided a template could be made i hope after i made this randomly:



its a affilate banner which funnaly enough is usually one of the last things made for a template

[Trace]

Sorry...this is like....a very old topic, but I have a question. I'm trying out gimp for the first time and do not understand the layer concept very much. >_>

[noman]

Hi, Trace. I'm not much of a GIMP user, but I think I know how the layer palette works. I'll take a look at it soon, and put together a tutorial for you

[Bisurge]

OMFG THIS IS JUST WHAT I NEEDED THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Now I can take the backgrounds that I will make and use paint to make it into a sig!
Yes I know how to make Paint sigs.

EDIT: Crap it doesn't work, paint's non-opaque sucks.

[adam1990]

How do I open the layers window if it isn't there? Thanks for any help.